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dissimilarity

[dih-sim-uh-lar-i-tee, dis-sim-] / dɪˌsɪm əˈlær ɪ ti, dɪsˌsɪm- /


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The dissimilarity of impacts from each type can be significant.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2021

But the complete tonal dissimilarity between the laugh-track side of Allison's world and the half that's entirely a grim working-class drama was never this show's problem.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2021

Ever since Chubbs Peterson convinced Happy Gilmore to trade his Bruins sweater for a sweater vest, golf and hockey have been irrevocably intertwined—an odd couple united by apparatus, cultural dissimilarity, and the comedy therein.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 5, 2019

But for all the surface dissimilarity of their deeds, the two men are ultimately guilty of the same transgression.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2019

On reflection, Cahokia’s dissimilarity to other cities is not surprising; having never seen a city, its citizens had to invent every aspect of urban life for themselves.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

I think what struck me at first was the number of parallels and dissimilarities between the revolution and what’s happening now.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

But the more Arteaga and his colleagues looked at the snake on his book cover—a “cloud forest morph”—the more they found dissimilarities.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2024

Organisms belonging to a similar biome have dissimilarities in their makeup.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

But some Central American immigrants who now make their homes in Southern California believe that, for all their dissimilarities, Ortega and Bukele are mirror images.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

Yet despite these great dissimilarities the stories of the encounter run in broad parallel.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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